Abstract: Understand 6.4 let’s you create your own metrics. Understand comes with a lot of built-in metrics, like the number of code lines or the McCabe cyclomatic complexity of a function. Not…
Category: Metrics
Visualize Code Coverage in Understand
Abstract: This article generates code coverage information for openssl and shows a few ways to use the information. I have to admit that the only time I’ve used code coverage is for…
Understand 6.3 Release
The Understand 6.3 release highlights the tools’ newest features and upgrades. Some of these improvements enhance existing tools, while others offer brand-new capabilities. Topics covered in this article include graph customization, continuous CodeCheck verification, a customizable Violation Browser, automated dependency rules, automatic architectures, AUTOSAR support, spell checking for comments/strings, SARIF imports feature, support for C#11, minor metric changes, and a new Jenkins plugin.
Cool Plugins for Code Maintenance
Three plugins provided by our partner, TechMatrix, that can help you identify and visualize code with low maintainability.
Measuring Your Code
Learn about the available metrics in Understand, the ways to explore them, and how they can help you solve problems.
Assessing Possible Changes in Source Code (a.k.a. My boss asked me to change this code)
Estimating the impact of changing a function in the open-source covid source code.
A visual tour of cyclomatic complexity
A visual tour of how maintenance risk increases with cyclomatic complexity